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Inhae @life@social.inhae.blog · 18:33

I bought a Monami 153! It’s an iconic ballpoint pen, but I never had one before.

It was created in 1963 by the Korean stationery brand Monami 모나미 (coming from French “mon ami”), and the name of this pen, “153”, comes from its retail price 15won (the price of a bus ticket or a newspaper at the time), and the fact that it’s the third product launched by the brand.

I found a commercial poster from 1963, proof that the pen kept the exact same design!

Focus of the picture is a retractable ballpoint pen with a hexagonal white body in plastic, a black grip and a black button to release the tip. “Monami 153 0.7” is written on the body. The pen looks simple and cheap.
Old commercial poster in black and white with a picture of a hand holding a ballpoint pen vertically. At the bottom, text in Korean praises the quality of the product and insists on the fact that it’s the first ballpoint pen made by a Korean company.
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